A plague of informers : conspiracy and political trust in William III's England / Rachel Weil.
Stories of plots, sham plots, and the citizen-informers who discovered them are at the centre of Rachel Weil's compelling study of the turbulent decade following the Revolution of 1688. Most studies of the Glorious Revolution focus on its causes or long-term effects, but Weil instead zeroes in...
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| 505 | 0 | 0 | |t Frontmatter -- |t Contents -- |t Acknowledgments -- |t Notes on Conventions and on Currency -- |t Persons and Plots -- |t Introduction -- |t Chapter 1: Debates on National Security -- |t Chapter 2: A Trusted Government? -- |t Chapter 3: "A Tool with so Devilish an Edge": Government Officials and Political Informers in the 1690s -- |t Chapter 4: Identity, Honor, and Gender in the Narratives of Informers -- |t Chapter 5: Credit and Credibility in the Worlds of Richard Kingston -- |t Chapter 6: Loyalty and Credibility in the Lancashire "Sham Plot" -- |t Chapter 7: Representation, Politics, and Law in the Assassination Plot -- |t Notes -- |t Manuscript Collections Consulted -- |t Index. |
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